Effect of Different Colistin Doses on Clinical Outcome of Pediatric Cancer Patients With Gram Negative Infections

Summary

Prospective randomized study comparing different colistin dosing regimens in paediatric cancer patient with MDR gram-negative infection or sepsis

Timeline

Start

2017-01

Primary completion

2019-01

Completion

2019-03

Publications

• Background Storm DR, Rosenthal KS, Swanson PE. Polymyxin and related peptide antibiotics. Annu Rev Biochem. 1977;46:723-63. doi: 10.1146/annurev.bi.46.070177.003451.
• Background Komura S, Kurahashi K. Partial purification and properties of L-2,4-diaminobutyric acid activating enzyme from a polymyxin E producing organism. J Biochem. 1979 Oct;86(4):1013-21. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a132594.
• Background Brown JM, Dorman DC, Roy LP. Acute renal failure due to overdosage of colistin. Med J Aust. 1970 Nov 14;2(20):923-4. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb63262.x. No abstract available.
• Background Falagas ME, Kasiakou SK. Colistin: the revival of polymyxins for the management of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 May 1;40(9):1333-41. doi: 10.1086/429323. Epub 2005 Mar 22.
• Background Dalfino L, Puntillo F, Mosca A, Monno R, Spada ML, Coppolecchia S, Miragliotta G, Bruno F, Brienza N. High-dose, extended-interval colistin administration in critically ill patients: is this the right dosing strategy? A preliminary study. Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Jun;54(12):1720-6. doi: 10.1093/cid/cis286. Epub 2012 Mar 15.
• Background Hernandez Orozco H, Lucas Resendiz E, Castaneda JL, De Colsa A, Ramirez Mayans J, Johnson KM, Gonzalez N, Caniza MA. Surveillance of healthcare associated infections in pediatric cancer patients between 2004 and 2009 in a public pediatric hospital in Mexico city, Mexico. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2014 Mar;36(2):96-8. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31827e7f4c.
• Background Gupta A, Kapil A, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Sood S, Dhawan B, Das BK, Sreenivas V. Burden of healthcare-associated infections in a paediatric intensive care unit of a developing country: a single centre experience using active surveillance. J Hosp Infect. 2011 Aug;78(4):323-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2011.04.015. Epub 2011 Jun 14.
• Background Bergen PJ, Li J, Nation RL. Dosing of colistin-back to basic PK/PD. Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2011 Oct;11(5):464-9. doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2011.07.004. Epub 2011 Aug 9.

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